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A BNSF steel train wraps itself around downtown Tacoma, WA sometime about eleven years ago. Kind of digging that consist of pre-swoosh power.
Note the old Union Station with arches to the right. I always liked visiting Tacoma for a day. Good trains, weather, seafood, scenery...
ok guys! I have a major confession to make... my eyes have lost the color sense and I mean physically. This is from my archives. The new photos that I take henceforth - will not be tweaked the way I want as I'm unable to make out the colors or brightness and contrast. So incase if you see some photos really bright or excessive tones - please add an 'x' tag to the photo - so I'll know... however, I'll refrain from making any adjustments for that
Amsterdam City Archives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_City_Archives
Housed in a building called De Bazel, after Dutch architect Karel de Bazel. It was built from 1919 to 1926 as the head office of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij.
De Bazel died before the building was finished.
Since 2006 the building has been home to the city's public record office, designed by Claus and Kaan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bazel
The style is called Brick Expressionism. I wonder why ?
Ophrys sphegodes, Antanges, Vaud, Switzerland. Back to my love: orchids. One of the early sites for ophrys.
Nankeen Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) immature
While looking through my archives for this day I came across this Night Heron flight image. I really didn't know it was there.
I had taken a bike ride along Federation Trail from Sneydes Rd. to Werribee. This image was taken as I approached the Werribee River - with an older camera and a 250mm kit lens.
The image has been cropped.
RKO_1763. From the archives.
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Since their founding, the Marble Sisters had only one task: to watch the archives. They spent every day caring for the scrolls; returning borrowed texts, replacing fragments too torn or faded to understand, and, every once in a while, creating new manuscripts to join the ranks of the endless rows in their vast library. Although the sisters were able to achieve great knowledge and wisdom thanks to the scrolls, they received a curse as well: a hunger, a never-ceasing addiction for more knowledge. This drove most of the sisters to madness, however, those who managed to control their urge gained more than anyone could possibly imagine...
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Built for Brickscalibur in the 12x12 vignette category.
I decided to build this as my entry for the 12x12 category after I was inspired by some concept art for the wheel of time Amazon show. I figured I'd venture beyond libraries and books and take my chances with some scrolls instead. Let me know what you think!
Feedback is always appreciated,
Happy Building!
Griffon Vulture adult flight_w_ (Gyps fulvus)-6538
Like other vultures, it is a scavenger, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals which it finds by soaring over open areas, often moving in flocks. It establishes nesting colonies in cliffs that are undisturbed by humans while coverage of open areas and availability of dead animals within dozens of kilometres of these cliffs is high. These huge birds grunts and hisses at roosts or when feeding on carrion.
In many cultures around the world, particularly in Western societies, vultures are viewed with disdain. Commonly, people tend to look down on these birds as dirty, ugly, and unhygienic, failing to recognise their importance. People of other cultures, however, hold the vulture in high regard. This is true with the inhabitants of the Tibetan plateau, where vultures are part of traditional funerary customs. In this culture, people are not buried after death as a means of controlling preventable infectious diseases. Instead, the dead are laid to rest in the sky. Monks prepare the bodies of the deceased and set them on platforms to draw the attention of nearby vultures. The vultures discover these human bodies, ingesting them and carrying them off into the sky. Many people view this as one final good deed as the deceased is able to offer something to another living creature before going off to rest in the sky. This practice is not unique to Tibet, however. Historical evidence suggests it has been practiced by cultures around the world for over 11,000 years.
The maximum recorded lifespan of the griffon vulture is 41.4 years for an individual in captivity